Did Oxnard Give a Flying "FaZool"
 for the Patel Family? - Answer:  NO !
 

To Bill Winter
Editor - Oxnard-Journal.com

Bill:

 

You were at the last City Council meeting and, of course, so was Raul. [Hernandez - Oxnard Reporter for the VC Star]
Listening to the public comments I could not help but be moved by the Patel families' comments. In particular were the points they made  that the City's employee attempted to change his testimony at trial from the one he gave at the accident, and the attempt by the City's attorney with the approval of the City Council to paint Mr. Patel as being unable to push the "cross" button at the stop light simply because he was not a native of California. The City also said that Mr. Patel's life wasn't worth a settlement offer. And even tough the Oxnard on sight police officer's report states Mr. Patel had been crossing in an approved cross walk, the City's attorney's tried to convince the jury that Mr. Patel walked into the truck. Finally to make the City's story plausible the City's attorney said that Oxnard's police are often wrong when they write their reports.

 

No too long ago in many places in this country friends of mine could not sit in the front of the bus. I was once evicted from a restaurant because I came with a friend, who was African American (in those days Black American). What the City did to the Patel family is the same discrimination.

 

What the City did to the Patel family sickens me as much as it sickened me that my friend and I were not served at the restaurant where we wanted to eat.

 

WHAT ALSO MAKES ME ILL IS THE LACK OF NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF THESE FACTS. Many Oxnard residents look to you for the news that other "newspaper reporters" will not print or investigate. Please consider this worth your coverage.

 

Phil Molina.